STONE FENCES

Letra de la canción

He feels the weather turn, looks out across the waterit's the second time this weekhe swears he saw her in the harbour mouthwhere the morning mist rolls out across the bayTurns back to his work building walls of stoneacross the green hills so overgrowncutting through the tangle of clinging vine and weedshe builds his fences so straight and cleanChorus and the wild flowers grow in the cracks between the stonesno one knows the mind of a man who works aloneanother season gone and the wild birds have returnedbut the gorbies never tell the secrets they have learned

they say he got too close to his one and only lovershe came in like a fireship touched his soul with her flaming sailsthen she slipped away on a summer stormStone fences stand against the wind stand against the rain steady in the galea hundred thousand boulders stand pieced together by his hands like a puzzleChorus The mist has turned to rain, the wild birds take their flightout across the bay, the flashing of the lightand the gorbies know that one more soul has measured out it's lifeStone fences span across these hills, the memory of a man and the monuments he builta hundred thousand boulders stand the measure of a man and the life he lived